First videogame you ever played

[CaptainMeme]

Earliest game I remember playing was Lemmings. Fun game and still holds up!

I know there were a bunch of random games that were preinstalled on my parents' mac also, but they're in that realm of memory where I'd probably recognise them if I saw them again but I can only name a detail or two from them.

[Fluminator]

Oh wow.
I totally forgot about lemmings, chips challenges, and tonka. Those were even earlier.

[Infinity 324]

Pokemon diamond

[Psyche]

probably mario or street fighter with my dad

[Ythan]

Still like Lemmings. Have a floppy of Chip's Challenge and no place to put it.

Which SF Psyche I've been playing some of those lately.

[Psyche]

i can't remember for sure
there was a cartridge!

[Nero Cain]

Was most likely super mario brothers 3 but I think the first game I ever had was tin star

[Nexus]

Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout on the NES. Typical NES fare - fucking rock hard.

First game I properly played, by myself, was Tomb Raider.

[T3]

XCOM

[Ircher]

I'm sure I played some edutainment of games before, but the first non-educational video game I remember playing is Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. It's a great game. In fact, I still have the cartridge and I have been replaying it recently.

[Iprobablysuck]

50/50 it was either mario party ds or super mario 64. don't remember too clearly.

[Flea The Magician]

Duck Hunt was mine

[Gamma Emerald]

Pretty sure mine was the GBA port of Super Mario World (as in the Super Mario Advance version)
I have early memories of video games that I'm pretty sure precede that but they're of watching others play I think

[Vaxkiller]

I played some educational spelling game on our computer in the late 80's. It may have had a wizard on it. I know, not very exciting...

[Infinity 324]

Oh I wasn't counting educational games, moneygames were the shit in elementary school

[Egix96]

The first console I owned was a PS1. The first few games I had, the specific order of which I don't recall, were all film/TV tie-ins from 2001. Atlantis The Lost Empire, Harry Potter, stuff like that.

First handheld game was Pokemon Blue. Played it on the GBC though.

[House]

At the arcade? Pac-Man.

At home? Warlords, which is basically the Atari 2600's bastard child of 4 player pong & Breakout, where you use a paddle controller to prevent your bricks from being destroyed while destroying the bricks of the other player(s).

[Ythan]

Waka waka waka waka

[redtea]

warlords sounds kinda fun for a few rounds

the earliest games I remember playing, around 4-5 years old, are Mario Party 3 with my siblings (we have a photo of that time too, it's adorable), DDR Max on the PS2, and Animal Crossing on the GC. Literally had nightmares of resetti and the gamecube menu oml

[House]

warlords sounds kinda fun for a few rounds

the earliest games I remember playing, around 4-5 years old, are Mario Party 3 with my siblings (we have a photo of that time too, it's adorable), DDR Max on the PS2, and Animal Crossing on the GC. Literally had nightmares of resetti and the gamecube menu oml

I liked games that used paddles more than the joystick on the 2600 because paddles were far more responsive.

You could literally feel the input lag with a joystick. We didn't call it input lag back then, though. They were just slow & clunky.

[redtea]

paddles are so smooth, they're almost too good. Ig it takes getting used to.

what gets me about old joysticks is how you gotta adapt depending on whether it's a new, tight one or old loose one. I hate when I'm streaming in galaga and I don't move it *quite* far enough and then boom, ded by yellow bee

[Isis]

Joysticks give less control of the game than direction buttons, really, people just find them more immersive.

[Ythan]

I find it easier to perform specials in Street Fighter with the stick but in truth I've hardly tried with the pad.

[Porochaz]

I haven't played Yooka Laylee yet. I've heard it's hugely disappointing, but since I'm going in with a low expectation, maybe I'll still like it?

I think it's exactly what it promised to be, but people weren't looking for a late 90's era collectathon in 2017.

I disagree. It was exactly what I was looking for, I loved the Banjo/DK64/Mario platformers. It's why I through as much money at the kickstarter as I did. However the camera and opening level were so absolutely shoddy that it was unplayable. Which was a frequent complaint, and similarly to Cyberpunk by the time they fixed it people had moved onto other things and another much better received similar platformer "Snake Pass" came out. I have it and intend to play it, probably on the switch rather than PC, but yeah it fell down my list a bit.

As for first game - Super Mario World for the SNES or The Magical Quest. The first game I owned properly was Super Mario Land, and on actual console - Mario 64/F1 WGP. On PC it was Sim City 2000, most likely but could have been Theme Park.

[Porochaz]

Oh man, the dislike of DK64 makes me sad, it did have a fair bit of backtracking, but it was miles better than Banjo Tooie, which was good but yeah the level design was a choice. And once you had unlocked all the Kongs the backtracking was a lot less. But there was so much fun little things within DK that it always had something fun to do. Yeah, it might not have been as fun as BK but I still rank it as one of my top games.